The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-07-12

are in Sing Sing Prison; ten are in
dicted and out on bail; one Cleary is
out on bail, the jury having disagreed
two are informers; one is insane; one
died; one is in Germany and five in
Canada. The papers generally APP
prove the verdict.
HAVANA June 30.-A workman in
Holquin. as a precaution against small
pox, built a coal fire before retiring
for the night, and placed thereon sew
eral leaves Of tobacco. fumes from
which he had been told furnished a
safeguard against the disease. Next
morning the man, his wife and eight
children We're dead, having been suf-
located by the coal gas.
GUAYAQU1L, June 29.-The most vio
lent earthquake experienced here since
1858 occurred at 6:20 o'clock this
morning. causing great alarm among
the people The shock lasted 2 min
utes and 20 seconds, and the direction
Of the movement was from northeast
to southwest. All the clocks in the
city were stopped at the moment of
the shock A number of ceilings were
shaken down and several buildings
demolished. As far as reported no
one was injured. 1t is feared the
shock must have caused much dam
age in the cities in the interior
New YORK, June 23.-The Times
says, in regard to the sale of block
of $4,000 shares Of Manhattan stock
by Cyrus w. Field to Jay Gould:
Jay Gould and Russell Sage are
triumphant Cyrus W. Fields scalp
has been taken. Field made a brave
fight, but did not realize till the end
came that he was to be struck down
in the very house of his friends. The
terrific tumbling given Manhattan
stock settled all questions as to the
purpose of the precious pair, and the
convictions thus formed were made
indisputable when early in the pa
nicky time of Friday one of Fields
personal brokers had to go begging
around the streets for an extension
on his contract. No hint of this has
been made pubic.
NEW YORK, June pa Commercial
Bulletin editorial says: 1t is rightly
considered that the financial events
of the past few days viii make up for
future prosperity, as disasters are
not unfrequently necessary to the re-
moval of Obstacles. 1t was known
before those disaster came that GER
tain great speculations stood in the
way of industrial and commercial
prosperity. 1t was known that there
could never be an abiding confidence
in well informed financial circles I'M
til these speculations had abated. 1t
was known that there could be no
lasting prosperity, for the dealers in
coffee, in grain, in pork product, or
in securities until the unsoundness
and false valuations which specula-
ton had produced, could be got out
of the way.
New YORK, June 27.-The World
says: Queen Kapiolani and Prince
Komatsu of Japan and all the Indian
Princes are soon to be entertained
exclusively at Windsor. It looks
very much from this side of the water
as though the color line had been
drawn very sharply among the royal
guests now in London. It has been
known for some time that Queen IA
piolani was a veritable bette noir to
the European crown heads assembled
to celebrate Yictoria's jubilee, but
the color prejudice would go further
than in the case of the Kanaka
sovereign was not suspected uUtil the
news of special dinner for the off
color potentates reached the public.
1t really seems strange the European
opponents of the divine right of kings
should feel that one of the" anointed"
Is degraded by the color of his cpl
dermis
New LONDON Conn.,, June 81
The eight annual four mile straight
away race between the eight cared
crews of Harvard and Columbia was
rowed this afternoon on the Thames
course. and proved to be one of the
most hotly contested races ever rowed.
Both crews beat the record of 21m
Bis made by Yale in 1884. The Off
cial time is: Harvard, Pom. 20s; Col
umbia, 21m. 2ls.
ROCHESTER, June 27.-This morning
about 400 laborers in the employ Of
contractors of the city streets struck
for an increase of wages. This after
noon all contractors put on force of
new men, and trouble ensued. A
mob of 200 or more strikers and their
friends gathered on Gorham street
and attacked the new men with stones.
etc. A squad of officers, who came to |
their assistance, was likewise as
and after several futile at
tempts to dispense the men, the police
opened fire upon them with their
revolvers. When the fight was over
it was found that two policemen were
seriously injured by stones.
Three of the mob were badly dubbed |
and shot through the head. Two